Setting up master pages

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Master pages are templates you can use to apply to every page on your site. This frees up your setup time and gives your website a uniform look. Common parts of a master page include a header and footer, navigational components, images or certain links. In this video tutorial, you will learn about setting up items on a master page in Muse. You will also find out how to set up more than one master page and apply them to certain pages.

…Much like Adobe InDesign, Adobe Muse also has something called master pages.…And in this movie, I am going to show you, how to work with those.…If you are not familiar with what a master page is, it's basically just a template…that goes alongside the document you are creating, which holds content that you…would like to be displayed on every single page, that adopts that master page.…So for instance, in this blank website that we have here,…you can see down at the bottom, that we have a master page called A Master.…You can also see up here, that all of these pages have A Master in brackets…underneath them, indicating that that master is being applied to those pages.…

So, whatever we put on this master page down here,…will automatically show up on these pages up here.…Let's take a look at how this works.…I'm going to double-click on A Master, and…that's going to take me into Design view for that master page.…I'm not working on any page in the document,…I'm just working on the master page.…And so, what I want to do now is just add something to this, just so…

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6/16/2015

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6/20/2014

Learn how to create HTML-based websites with Muse—a toolset familiar to anyone who has used Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, or Illustrator. Staff author Justin Seeley covers the design process from start to finish, from setting up web pages and populating them with graphics and text, to creating dynamic menus and adding special features such as widgets, slideshows, animations, embedded video, social media integration, and more. Justin also explains how to create an alternate layout for display on mobile devices, publish and update your site, and view analytics on web traffic.